Brian L Job
Biographic Data
| ID | 982579 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian L Job |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian L |
| FAMILY NAME | Job |
| SIGNATURE | JOB B L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7492-595X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 398 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Cooperative Security in the Asia-Pacific: Canadian Track-two Initiatives, 1989–2005
Between 1989 and 2005, Canadian academics and officials initiated significant programs to promote security—both cooperative and human—in Asia. The distinctive features were Canadian leadership, resource commitments, and ambitions to advance inclusive “track-two” dialogue, broaden the scope of security discussions beyond conventional defence matters, and advance Canada's role in the region. This is a chronicle of two major Canadian initiatives, th…
How Africa and China may shape UN peacekeeping beyond the liberal international order
UN peacekeeping became a flagship activity of the liberal international order (LIO) in the post-Cold War era, characterized by globalization, liberal norms and western leadership. Western states' diminished support for LIO UN peacekeeping has left it increasingly open to challenge, but significant changes are only likely if a strong group of states coalesces around an alternative model of UN peacekeeping. This article highlights African actors an…
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Dilemmas of Middle Powers
“Middle powers,” variously defined, have served relevant and significant roles in the post-WWII regional and global orders, facilitated by structural conditions of “long peace” among great powers and proactive leadership by and among creative middle powers. Within the complex Asia-Pacific security order, “middle powers” such as Australia, Canada, and South Korea have had the “space” to engage the non-like minded and advance multilateralism with s…
Particularized protection: UNSC mandates and the protection of civilians in armed conflict
The protection of civilians at risk in armed conflict has, since the late 1990s, become institutionalized at the United Nations (UN), gaining acceptance as a normative rationale for UN peacekeeping. However, the bulk of civilians in need of protection in armed conflict are unlikely to attain it. The article develops an argument on ‘particularized protection' – particularized in that UN Security Council (SC) mandates are formulated and adjusted ov…
Evolution, retreat or rejection: Brazil’s, India’s and China’s normative stances on R2P
This paper outlines the development and evolution of the normative positions of China, Brazil and India on issues surrounding the responsibility to protect (R2P) by charting their engagement in the ‘institutionalized conversation’ within the United Nations. In doing so, it seeks to dispel characterizations of these states as having adopted individual or common positions that either wholly reject or accept R2P. The nuances of the adaption and adop…
The Next Phase in the Consolidation and Expansion of Global Governance
THE KEY INSIGHT EXPRESSED IN THE STRIKING WORDS OF THE BRUNDTLAND Commission--The Earth is one but the world is not (1)--remains as relevant a political statement about most global governance challenges today as it was about sustainable development twenty-seven years ago. Global governance entails multilevel and networked relations and interactions for managing and facilitating linkages across policy levels and domains. It consists of formal and …
Programación del riego de la papa en el "Valle del Yabú", Santa Clara, Cuba
El objetivo del presente trabajo, ejecutado durante dos cosechas 2009 y 2009-10 fue estudiar la programación del riego de la papa que se realiza en la Unidad Cooperativa No.2 del “Valle del Yabú” de Santa Clara y realizar correcciones para lograr el establecimiento de una programación de riego científicamente fundamentada. En la primera cosecha, se comprobó que el momento de aplicación del riego y el volumen de agua aportado no obedecían a criter…
Security Politics in the Asia-Pacific: A Regional-Global Nexus?
Asia is experiencing major changes in its security relations. This book brings together respected experts to assess both the theoretical and empirical dimensions of the Asian security debate. Building on the latest research on Asia's regional security politics, it focuses on the 'regional-global nexus' as a way to understand the dynamics of Asian security politics and its intersection with global security. Contributors to the volume offer diverse…
Raising the risks of war: Defence spending trends and competitive arms processes in East Asia
After a temporary downturn in many Asian states after the 1997 Economic Crisis defence expenditures are rising again. Although most states put internal and transborder security issues at the top of their list of potential threats, an examination of recent trends in regional defence expenditure trends and weapons acquisition patterns belies this. Resources are being directed predominately toward externally oriented weapons systems such as fighter …
U.S. Policy in Southeast Asia: Limited Re-engagement after Years of Benign Neglect
American foreign policy in Southeast Asia from 1975 to the present can be characterized as exhibiting varying degrees of benign neglect, with episodic attention to perceived security threats. Current policies are narrowly focused on anti-terrorism; their perceived anti-Muslim overtones, while engendering instrumental cooperation, have tended to alienate Southeast Asian publics. U.S. influence in Southeast Asia appears to be waning, with China cap…
Assessing the Risks of Conflict in the PRC-ROC Enduring Rivalry
T he mutually unsatisfactory state of relations across the Taiwan Strait has defined one of the critical tension points of the international system throughout the last five decades. Indeed, the Taiwan Strait remains one of the few crisis points on the globe which analysts regard as having the potential to spark a major power war, even nuclear exchange. It is one of very few issues for which tensions are at a higher level today than at the end of …
The Insecurity Dilemma: National Security of Third World States
Positing an "insecurity dilemma," in which national security, defined as regime security by state authorities, becomes pitted against the incompatible demands of ethnic, social, and religious forces, this book addresses the problems and prospects for security in the Third World in the 1990s
Emerging Dimensions of European Security Policy
The President and the Political Use of Force
Throughout the post-World War II period the president has been called upon to make decisions concerning the use of force as a political instrument. The explanation that is offered is based upon a characterization of the president as a cybernetic human decision maker facing limitations. These limitations, in conjunction with the complexity of the environment, lead presidents to develop and use a relatively simple decision rule. The dependent varia…
[Comments on "Scientific Forecasts in International Relations"]: A Brief Reply
Journal Article A Brief Reply Get access John R. Freeman, John R. Freeman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Brian L. Job Brian L. Job Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volume 23, Issue 1, March 1979, Pages 151–154, https://doi.org/10.2307/2600279 Published: 01 March 1979
Scientific Forecasts in International Relations: Problems of Definition and Epistemology
Contemporary analyses of international relations forecasting contain conceptual and epistemological errors. Alternative definitions of forecasting are contradictory; programs for developing scientific forecasts of international phenomena fail to acknowledge important epistemological difficulties. Forecasting and prediction are distinguished, and several illustrations of each type of activity are presented. Criteria for determining the soundness o…
Crisis forcasting using the Markov Renewal model
(1978). Crisis forcasting using the Markov Renewal model. International Interactions: Vol. 4, Creative Methodlogies in International Relations, pp. 225-246
Catastrophe Theory and the Study of War
The methodologies and conceptual frameworks employed by contemporary scholars do not satisfactorily account for the outbreak of international violence. Particularly frustrating to the analyst are the facts: (1) Some wars start and escalate suddenly while others begin and gradually build in intensity; yet in either case assumed causal factors are seen to vary smoothly and continuously through time. (2) The international system may be either at war…
Incremental Budgeting and International Organizations
The research reported in this article falls within the tradition of both the behavioral budgetary and international organization literature. The article involves two extensions of the ongoing inquiry into the politics of the budgetary process. First, it examines incremental budgetary theory in a new political arena, the international governmental organization. Specifically, budgetary actions between 1951 and 1969 regarding the budget total in the…
The President and the Political Use of Force
Throughout the post-World War II period the president has been called upon to make decisions concerning the use of force as a political instrument. The explanation that is offered is based upon a characterization of the president as a cybernetic human decision maker facing limitations. These limitations, in conjunction with the complexity of the environment, lead presidents to develop and use a relatively simple decision rule. The dependent varia…
The Insecurity Dilemma: National Security of Third World States
Positing an "insecurity dilemma," in which national security, defined as regime security by state authorities, becomes pitted against the incompatible demands of ethnic, social, and religious forces, this book addresses the problems and prospects for security in the Third World in the 1990s
U.S. Policy in Southeast Asia: Limited Re-engagement after Years of Benign Neglect
American foreign policy in Southeast Asia from 1975 to the present can be characterized as exhibiting varying degrees of benign neglect, with episodic attention to perceived security threats. Current policies are narrowly focused on anti-terrorism; their perceived anti-Muslim overtones, while engendering instrumental cooperation, have tended to alienate Southeast Asian publics. U.S. influence in Southeast Asia appears to be waning, with China cap…
Catastrophe Theory and the Study of War
The methodologies and conceptual frameworks employed by contemporary scholars do not satisfactorily account for the outbreak of international violence. Particularly frustrating to the analyst are the facts: (1) Some wars start and escalate suddenly while others begin and gradually build in intensity; yet in either case assumed causal factors are seen to vary smoothly and continuously through time. (2) The international system may be either at war…
Incremental Budgeting and International Organizations
The research reported in this article falls within the tradition of both the behavioral budgetary and international organization literature. The article involves two extensions of the ongoing inquiry into the politics of the budgetary process. First, it examines incremental budgetary theory in a new political arena, the international governmental organization. Specifically, budgetary actions between 1951 and 1969 regarding the budget total in the…
Particularized protection: UNSC mandates and the protection of civilians in armed conflict
The protection of civilians at risk in armed conflict has, since the late 1990s, become institutionalized at the United Nations (UN), gaining acceptance as a normative rationale for UN peacekeeping. However, the bulk of civilians in need of protection in armed conflict are unlikely to attain it. The article develops an argument on ‘particularized protection' – particularized in that UN Security Council (SC) mandates are formulated and adjusted ov…
How Africa and China may shape UN peacekeeping beyond the liberal international order
UN peacekeeping became a flagship activity of the liberal international order (LIO) in the post-Cold War era, characterized by globalization, liberal norms and western leadership. Western states' diminished support for LIO UN peacekeeping has left it increasingly open to challenge, but significant changes are only likely if a strong group of states coalesces around an alternative model of UN peacekeeping. This article highlights African actors an…
Raising the risks of war: Defence spending trends and competitive arms processes in East Asia
After a temporary downturn in many Asian states after the 1997 Economic Crisis defence expenditures are rising again. Although most states put internal and transborder security issues at the top of their list of potential threats, an examination of recent trends in regional defence expenditure trends and weapons acquisition patterns belies this. Resources are being directed predominately toward externally oriented weapons systems such as fighter …
Scientific Forecasts in International Relations: Problems of Definition and Epistemology
Contemporary analyses of international relations forecasting contain conceptual and epistemological errors. Alternative definitions of forecasting are contradictory; programs for developing scientific forecasts of international phenomena fail to acknowledge important epistemological difficulties. Forecasting and prediction are distinguished, and several illustrations of each type of activity are presented. Criteria for determining the soundness o…
Evolution, retreat or rejection: Brazil’s, India’s and China’s normative stances on R2P
This paper outlines the development and evolution of the normative positions of China, Brazil and India on issues surrounding the responsibility to protect (R2P) by charting their engagement in the ‘institutionalized conversation’ within the United Nations. In doing so, it seeks to dispel characterizations of these states as having adopted individual or common positions that either wholly reject or accept R2P. The nuances of the adaption and adop…
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Dilemmas of Middle Powers
“Middle powers,” variously defined, have served relevant and significant roles in the post-WWII regional and global orders, facilitated by structural conditions of “long peace” among great powers and proactive leadership by and among creative middle powers. Within the complex Asia-Pacific security order, “middle powers” such as Australia, Canada, and South Korea have had the “space” to engage the non-like minded and advance multilateralism with s…
Assessing the Risks of Conflict in the PRC-ROC Enduring Rivalry
T he mutually unsatisfactory state of relations across the Taiwan Strait has defined one of the critical tension points of the international system throughout the last five decades. Indeed, the Taiwan Strait remains one of the few crisis points on the globe which analysts regard as having the potential to spark a major power war, even nuclear exchange. It is one of very few issues for which tensions are at a higher level today than at the end of …
Emerging Dimensions of European Security Policy
Incremental Budgeting and International Organizations
The research reported in this article falls within the tradition of both the behavioral budgetary and international organization literature. The article involves two extensions of the ongoing inquiry into the politics of the budgetary process. First, it examines incremental budgetary theory in a new political arena, the international governmental organization. Specifically, budgetary actions between 1951 and 1969 regarding the budget total in the…
Crisis forcasting using the Markov Renewal model
(1978). Crisis forcasting using the Markov Renewal model. International Interactions: Vol. 4, Creative Methodlogies in International Relations, pp. 225-246
Catastrophe Theory and the Study of War
The methodologies and conceptual frameworks employed by contemporary scholars do not satisfactorily account for the outbreak of international violence. Particularly frustrating to the analyst are the facts: (1) Some wars start and escalate suddenly while others begin and gradually build in intensity; yet in either case assumed causal factors are seen to vary smoothly and continuously through time. (2) The international system may be either at war…
[Comments on "Scientific Forecasts in International Relations"]: A Brief Reply
Journal Article A Brief Reply Get access John R. Freeman, John R. Freeman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Brian L. Job Brian L. Job Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volume 23, Issue 1, March 1979, Pages 151–154, https://doi.org/10.2307/2600279 Published: 01 March 1979
Scientific Forecasts in International Relations: Problems of Definition and Epistemology
Contemporary analyses of international relations forecasting contain conceptual and epistemological errors. Alternative definitions of forecasting are contradictory; programs for developing scientific forecasts of international phenomena fail to acknowledge important epistemological difficulties. Forecasting and prediction are distinguished, and several illustrations of each type of activity are presented. Criteria for determining the soundness o…
The President and the Political Use of Force
Throughout the post-World War II period the president has been called upon to make decisions concerning the use of force as a political instrument. The explanation that is offered is based upon a characterization of the president as a cybernetic human decision maker facing limitations. These limitations, in conjunction with the complexity of the environment, lead presidents to develop and use a relatively simple decision rule. The dependent varia…
The Insecurity Dilemma: National Security of Third World States
Positing an "insecurity dilemma," in which national security, defined as regime security by state authorities, becomes pitted against the incompatible demands of ethnic, social, and religious forces, this book addresses the problems and prospects for security in the Third World in the 1990s
Emerging Dimensions of European Security Policy
Assessing the Risks of Conflict in the PRC-ROC Enduring Rivalry
T he mutually unsatisfactory state of relations across the Taiwan Strait has defined one of the critical tension points of the international system throughout the last five decades. Indeed, the Taiwan Strait remains one of the few crisis points on the globe which analysts regard as having the potential to spark a major power war, even nuclear exchange. It is one of very few issues for which tensions are at a higher level today than at the end of …
Raising the risks of war: Defence spending trends and competitive arms processes in East Asia
After a temporary downturn in many Asian states after the 1997 Economic Crisis defence expenditures are rising again. Although most states put internal and transborder security issues at the top of their list of potential threats, an examination of recent trends in regional defence expenditure trends and weapons acquisition patterns belies this. Resources are being directed predominately toward externally oriented weapons systems such as fighter …
U.S. Policy in Southeast Asia: Limited Re-engagement after Years of Benign Neglect
American foreign policy in Southeast Asia from 1975 to the present can be characterized as exhibiting varying degrees of benign neglect, with episodic attention to perceived security threats. Current policies are narrowly focused on anti-terrorism; their perceived anti-Muslim overtones, while engendering instrumental cooperation, have tended to alienate Southeast Asian publics. U.S. influence in Southeast Asia appears to be waning, with China cap…
Security Politics in the Asia-Pacific: A Regional-Global Nexus?
Asia is experiencing major changes in its security relations. This book brings together respected experts to assess both the theoretical and empirical dimensions of the Asian security debate. Building on the latest research on Asia's regional security politics, it focuses on the 'regional-global nexus' as a way to understand the dynamics of Asian security politics and its intersection with global security. Contributors to the volume offer diverse…
Programación del riego de la papa en el "Valle del Yabú", Santa Clara, Cuba
El objetivo del presente trabajo, ejecutado durante dos cosechas 2009 y 2009-10 fue estudiar la programación del riego de la papa que se realiza en la Unidad Cooperativa No.2 del “Valle del Yabú” de Santa Clara y realizar correcciones para lograr el establecimiento de una programación de riego científicamente fundamentada. En la primera cosecha, se comprobó que el momento de aplicación del riego y el volumen de agua aportado no obedecían a criter…
The Next Phase in the Consolidation and Expansion of Global Governance
THE KEY INSIGHT EXPRESSED IN THE STRIKING WORDS OF THE BRUNDTLAND Commission--The Earth is one but the world is not (1)--remains as relevant a political statement about most global governance challenges today as it was about sustainable development twenty-seven years ago. Global governance entails multilevel and networked relations and interactions for managing and facilitating linkages across policy levels and domains. It consists of formal and …
Particularized protection: UNSC mandates and the protection of civilians in armed conflict
The protection of civilians at risk in armed conflict has, since the late 1990s, become institutionalized at the United Nations (UN), gaining acceptance as a normative rationale for UN peacekeeping. However, the bulk of civilians in need of protection in armed conflict are unlikely to attain it. The article develops an argument on ‘particularized protection' – particularized in that UN Security Council (SC) mandates are formulated and adjusted ov…
Evolution, retreat or rejection: Brazil’s, India’s and China’s normative stances on R2P
This paper outlines the development and evolution of the normative positions of China, Brazil and India on issues surrounding the responsibility to protect (R2P) by charting their engagement in the ‘institutionalized conversation’ within the United Nations. In doing so, it seeks to dispel characterizations of these states as having adopted individual or common positions that either wholly reject or accept R2P. The nuances of the adaption and adop…
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Dilemmas of Middle Powers
“Middle powers,” variously defined, have served relevant and significant roles in the post-WWII regional and global orders, facilitated by structural conditions of “long peace” among great powers and proactive leadership by and among creative middle powers. Within the complex Asia-Pacific security order, “middle powers” such as Australia, Canada, and South Korea have had the “space” to engage the non-like minded and advance multilateralism with s…
How Africa and China may shape UN peacekeeping beyond the liberal international order
UN peacekeeping became a flagship activity of the liberal international order (LIO) in the post-Cold War era, characterized by globalization, liberal norms and western leadership. Western states' diminished support for LIO UN peacekeeping has left it increasingly open to challenge, but significant changes are only likely if a strong group of states coalesces around an alternative model of UN peacekeeping. This article highlights African actors an…
Cooperative Security in the Asia-Pacific: Canadian Track-two Initiatives, 1989–2005
Between 1989 and 2005, Canadian academics and officials initiated significant programs to promote security—both cooperative and human—in Asia. The distinctive features were Canadian leadership, resource commitments, and ambitions to advance inclusive “track-two” dialogue, broaden the scope of security discussions beyond conventional defence matters, and advance Canada's role in the region. This is a chronicle of two major Canadian initiatives, th…
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